June 20, 2016 - The road to integrating innovation and entrepreneurship in higher education is never an easy one. Pathways program co-leader Alizabeth M. Sánchez-López shares how the Universidad del Turabo has propelled their campus forward despite Puerto Rico's current economic challenges.

October 13, 2015 - In October 2015, Epicenter’s Pathways to Innovation Program held a workshop at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas exploring the vital relationship between institutions and their off-campus ecosystems.

September 15, 2015 - Bradley Dice, a University Innovation Fellow from William Jewell College, shares his perspective on an event his team held for the incoming class of students as part of Epicenter's #uifresh initiative.

June 10, 2015 - The Universidad del Turabo in Puerto Rico, a Pathways to Innovation Program school, recently held the first event in their entrepreneurship and innovation event collection The Melting Pot Series.

June 9, 2015 - Dr. Helen L. Chen, member of Epicenter's FIGS research team, shares three questions for faculty to consider when designing experiences and documenting evidence of an entrepreneurial mindset in students.

February 25, 2015 - 123 students from 52 schools joined the University Innovation Fellows program in Spring 2015. New Fellows met for the first time at the University Innovation Fellows Annual Meetup 2015.

February 25, 2015 - Epicenter's Fostering Innovative Generations Studies (FIGS) team has launched a major longitudinal study of engineering students' interests and career goals surrounding innovation and entrepreneurship.

Atin Mittra, a University Innovation Fellow from the University of Maryland, helped facilitate the first Young Innovators Camp for high school juniors. During the two week workshop, Mittra learned just as much from his students as they did from him.

Leaders and faculty from historically black colleges and universities around the country gathered at Stanford University at the first annual UNCF HBCU Innnovation Summit to share ideas about how to encourage students, especially underrepresented minorities, to pursue careers in STEM fields.

Vignesh Vishwanathan, an engineering student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, sees many connections between design thinking and his internship designing and building parts for electric racecars.

Design Thinking Action Lab class member Melanie Thomas shares the connections she's found between design thinking, her work at Watlow Electric Manufacturing Company and her studies as an undergraduate engineering student at the Milwaukee School of Engineering.

Nathan Furr from Brigham Young University discovered a gap between understanding and practice of commercialization when he taught an interdisciplinary innovation class with business and engineering school students.

Stanford University student Grace Wang is learning how to change the world as an entrepreneur and innovator at Silicon Valley school Draper University of Heroes. Here, Grace details her experiences as part of the inaugural class from April 17 to June 7, 2013.

Rick Klau from the Google Ventures Startup Lab shared advice and kicked off an evening of small-group roundtable discussions with entrepreneurs and students at a recent event hosted by Google Ventures and Epicenter.

Nate Newman's pursuit of innovation has led him to obtain patents, write a successful grant proposal, and found an engineering company to develop marine ecosystem monitoring technology—all before graduating from high school.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1125457. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.